Who is this hot couple!?!

This has been a rollercoaster week of up's and downs. I am completely drained - emotionally, mentally, and physically. The wine and cheese party, my all-nighter, the two quizzes and paper in one day, shouting match. I'm about to collapse. And irvie's coming into the city tonight to visit. I'm hoping my planned hour-nap is enough to rejuvenate me. Somehow I doubt it.

Thanksgiving could not come any sooner.

I pulled an all nighter, but this turned out to be a really great day, with only one casulty (skipping Chinese class). My "pop" quiz (in quotes because I was tipped off, and that was the only reason I went to class this morning) in Monetary was a smashing success, and I spent the rest of the class time finishing my paper. Then I went home and revised my paper, and had enough time to nap for an hour (skipping aformentioned Chinese class). Then I went over to the Carnege Instutitute for Peace and listened to a lecture on China and WTO accension (sp?), then went over to my AsiaIR class and present my paper. Then, I went home, met up with Amy, and we got the apartment ready for our whine and cheez post-GRE pre-Thanksgiving party. On a big aside, Amy did well on her GRE. Congrats AMY!

The whine and cheez party was an unqualified success. Everyone showed up, the the buzz of the room was on high the whole time. I think it's the first time that I've gotten the majority of my friends in DC together in one room.

Things to be excited about. Traveling with Amy this winter, camping in upstate new york next year, going to NYC in december, going home to see my family...

sigh - now to catch up on 2 days of sleep...

Today I was talking to Steve and Amy how in my reading of Japanese ultranationalism leading to the militarism of WWII, I compared Japanese use of patriotism to steamroll over opposition to the current atmosphere in the US.

Well, coincidently, while doing research on the web for the paper that at 6am, I'm still working on, look what I found: another article comparing another aspect of Japanese facism during WWII to contemporary US. And this guy's got credentials too - he's a professor of history at Tufts.
Too busy trying to cram in lots of schoolwork before Thursday.

In the meantime, here are some links for you:
Switch - a parody on Apple's "Switch" campaign.

The US sucks at geography. or, why our nation is in trouble (when 3 in 10 people in the US cannot identify the Pacific ocean on a map. The Pacific ocean, people).